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From: flaps@utcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: PRECEDENT FOR USE OF =
Message-ID: <1986Jun30.203536.6984@utcs.uucp>
Date: Mon, 30-Jun-86 20:35:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: utcs.1986Jun30.203536.6984
Posted: Mon Jun 30 20:35:36 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 30-Jun-86 20:41:32 EDT
References: <1645@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: flaps@utcs.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal)
Organization: University of Toronto
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In article <1645@brl-smoke.ARPA> JUNG_E%SITVXA.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU writes:
>Why can't C be like everybody else?  Practically every language uses
>the equals sign, "=", to test for equality, not as an assignment operator.
>...
>              Kernighan and Ritchie, in their infinite wisdom, decide
>instead to use "=" for assignments and to create a new operator, "==" to
>test for equality.

Not only that, they changed "begin" and "end" to { and }, changed "writeln"
to puts, and all sorts of awful things!  They made it into a WHOLE NEW
LANGUAGE!!!!!